Improved mash and beer-cooler



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Beer Couler.

Patented Aug. 27, 1867.

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CHARLES SOHE-NGK, OF 'M'ANHEIM, BA DE-N.

Letters Patent No. 68,242, dated August 27, 1867.

IMPROVED MASH-AND BEER-COOLER.

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TO ALLWHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, CHARLES ScHizNoK, of Manheim, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, have invented a new and improved Mesh and Beer-Cooler; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same,'reference being h to the p yi g drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- I Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my improved beer-cooler. v Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same, the plane of section being indica-tedoby the line 212;, fig. 1. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. This invention relates to a new apparatus forcooling mash, beer, and other liquids, in which the liquid is poured upon a revolving disk which is thrown by Centrifugal power against the inside of a cylinderwhich revolves in a direction opposite to that in which the disk is rotated. The liquid thrown from the disk is spread, and isdepositcd upon the inner wallof the cylinder in a thin sheet, and flows down in a spiral line along the cylinder. A current of cool air is, by a fan which .is arranged inthe cylinder, and which revolves with the disk, thrown against the liquid as the same flows-down. in the cylinder, and rapidly cools the same, coming in contact with all the particles of the liquid as the latter is well spread. The liquid thus cooled is collected in a stationary annular vessel arranged below the lower open end of the cylinder, and can thence be barrelled or conducted to any suitable final or temporary receptacle,

A represents a stationary bed-plate, made of wood, metal, or other suitable material, or thefloor of the room in which the machine is set up. B B are two upright posts, arranged stationary on the bed A. The upper ends of the posts are connected by a cross-beam, as shown. In the centre of the latter is a vertical stationary tube, D, which serves as a guide and bearing for a tube, E, passing through D- The lower end of the tube carries a sheet-metal or wooden cylinder, F, with which it is connected by means of arms G Gr shown in fig. 2. The cylinder F is open altogether at the bottom, and partly on the top, as is clearly shown in fig. 2. H is a stationary vertical cylinder, having perforated or slotted sides of about onc-thirdor one-fourth the diameter of the cylinder F. It rests upon the bed A of the apparatus, and is at its bottom connected. with a channel, I, through which cold air may be conducted into the large cylinder F, as is clearly shown in fig. 2, the course of the air being indicated by the arrow 1. J is a vertical shaft passing through the centre of the cylinder H,

having its bearings in the heads of the cylinder H. This shaft is revolved by :i belt passing from a pulley on a driving-shaft, K over a pulley on the shaft J, as seen. A disk, L, is mounted on the upper end of the shaft, so as to be under the lower end of the tube E, as shown. From the disk are suspended, or with the shaft J are connectedbymeans of arms, a number of fan-blades, M M, which revolve with the shaft and throw the air that is conducted through the channel I into the cylinder H against the inside of the cylinder F. The cylinder F is revolveclby means of cog-wheels NN, of which oneis'mounted on the tube E, as shown, or by any other suitable mechanism.

The operation is as follows: The liquid to be cooled is poured through the tube E, on the upper end of which a. funnel, 0, may be formed upon the centre of the disk L. The same makes about eight hundred revolutions per minute, and by centrifugal power the liquid is thrown from the disk against the sides of the cylinder F, whence it flows down in a spiral line, the cylinder rotating with a velocity of about five hundred revolutions per minute. The liquid being on the wall of the cylinder in'a very thin sheet is easily cooled by the current of air thrown against it by the fan JM. When thus cooled the liquid falls into a stationary annular vessel, 1?, which is arranged below the cylinder F, as shown, and may be drawn off, whenever desired, through a pipe, R, arranged in the vessel P, as shown. The direct and powerful action of the air is very serviceable for the speedy oxidation-of such substances which might otherwise tend to make the liquid impure. No froth is formed to obstruct the passages and to impede the process.

Having thus. described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

I. A liquid cooler, so constructed that by centrifugal power the liquid is thrown from a revolving disk against the inside of a revolving cylinder, where it is cooledby a current of air created by a fan on the inside of the cylinder, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The cylinder F, in combination with the disk L on the shaft J, and with the fan M, all made and operating substantially as herein shown and described.

3. The above, in combination with the annular vessel P, the same being made as set forth.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 29th dayof April, 1867.

0.. SCHENCK.

Witnesses:

ROBERT Prnrrrnn. 0. Fscxnmr. 

